= Apache TomEE 7.0.0-M2 released, Feb 29th 2016
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The Apache TomEE community is proud to announce the release of 
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xref:tomee-7.0.0-M2.adoc[]
xref:tomee-7.0.0-M2.adoc[Apache TomEE 7.0.0-M2], which is based on http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/index.html[Apache Tomcat 8.0.32] and is our first milestone release towards EE7.
We know this has been a long time coming, so we thank you for your patience and support.

Please feel free to check out and xref:contribute.adoc[contribute to the developer branch] - We are always interested in any help from the community that we can get.

This version is not certified and is provided to the community as a milestone preview of the current development version.
It is however an extremly well tested version.
So please do test your applications and give us your feedback.

The Apache TomEE 7.0.0-M2 release files can be downloaded from here:

xref:download/tomee-7.0.0-M2.adoc[http://tomee.apache.org/download/tomee-7.0.0-M2.html]

== Update Maven POM Files - The OpenEJB version and groupId have been aligned

Simply update your existing Maven JavaEE-API, OpenEJB and or TomEE pom.xml entries to point to the latest versions:

[source,xml]
----
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.apache.tomee</groupId>
	<artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
	<version>7.0</version>
	<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.apache.tomee</groupId>
	<artifactId>openejb-core</artifactId>
	<version>7.0.0-M2</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.apache.tomee</groupId>
	<artifactId>tomee</artifactId>
	<version>7.0.0-M2</version>
</dependency>
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A complete xref:tomee-7.0.0-M2-release-notes.adoc[Changelog] can be viewed here:

xref:tomee-7.0.0-M2-release-notes.adoc[tomee-7.0.0-M2-release-notes.html]

Please feel free to jump in feet first and xref:docs.adoc[get started with TomEE].
You will nearly always find someone to help you on one of our xref:support.adoc[support channels].